Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected] * Package name : composefs Version : 1.0.3 Upstream Contact: Alexander Larsson, Colin Walters * URL : https://github.com/containers/composefs * License : GPL-3.0-or-later AND LGPL-2.0-or-later AND Apache-2.0 Programming Lang: C Description : file system for mounting container images
The composefs project combines several underlying Linux features to provide a very flexible mechanism to support read-only mountable filesystem trees, stacking on top of an underlying "lower" Linux filesystem. The key technologies composefs uses are: * overlayfs as the kernel interface * EROFS for a mountable metadata tree * fs-verity (optional) from the lower filesystem --- libostree optionally uses composefs to mount OS images. At the moment it uses a vendored copy of composefs, but there is movement upstream towards using composefs as an external shared library and de-vendoring it. When this happens, I will have to disable the composefs feature in src:ostree until/unless composefs is packaged separately. My interest in libostree is mainly for Flatpak, which doesn't use composefs anyway, so I am not able to take responsibility for composefs as a separate package; but I'd be fine with linking to an external composefs maintained by someone else, if that's useful for a different use-case. _______________________________________________ Pkg-utopia-maintainers mailing list [email protected] https://alioth-lists.debian.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-utopia-maintainers
